Re: [boost] [DateTime] gregorian::date constructor from day count

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-03 17:05:40

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 15:39:37 -0500, Hugo Duncan wrote
> Jeff, all,
> 
> I am trying to perisist a gergorian::date object.  I see that there 
> is an undocumented date::day_count to access the internal state, but 
> no way to reconstruct the date object.
> 
> How about a from_day_count() similar to from_time_t() ?

Why not persist as a string (eg: 2003-Nov-03) using to_simple_string and 
from_simple_string?  This way they are human readable as well.

Jeff